Britta Grauke

• Germany’s Long Way to Class Actions – The Implementation of the EU Directive on Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Blog Post — European Disputes Blog — By Britta Grauke and Gero Pogrzeba — May 23, 2023
  Class actions are historically unfamiliar to German civil procedural law. Transferring the findings and evaluations of a single model case to various cases with a similar background contradicts a cornerstone principle of German civil procedural law - that the assertion of claims on behalf of a third party is prohibited. ...
• The Weil European Distress Index Blog Post — Weil European Restructuring Watch — By Andrew J. Wilkinson, Neil Devaney, Britta Grauke and Anne-Sophie Noury — March 23, 2023
  Corporate distress in the UK has risen to its highest level since June 2020, despite easing marginally across other key European markets, according to the latest Weil European Distress Index. The quarterly study, which aggregates data from more than 3,750 listed corporates and financial market indicators, reveals an increasingly mixed picture across Europe. While remaining ...
• German share pledge enforcement: German Federal Supreme Court finally provides clarification on who is entitled to enforce Blog Post — Weil European Restructuring Watch — By Britta Grauke and Matthias Eiden — March 15, 2023
  Since the beginning of the 21st century and the first big wave of security enforcements in Germany, who holds the entitlement to enforce a share pledge has caused countless disputes between pledgees and insolvency administrators. This issue has now been resolved by a recently released judgment of the German Federal Supreme Court of 27 Oct ...
• German Share Pledge Enforcement: German Federal Supreme Court Finally Provides Clarification on Who Is Entitled to Enforce Alert — By Britta Grauke and Matthias Eiden — PDF — March 15, 2023
• US/UK/EU financial sanctions in response to the situation in Ukraine Blog Post — European Disputes Blog — By Christopher Marks, Hayley Lund, Britta Grauke, Marc Lordonnois, Timothy C. Welch, Gero Pogrzeba, Rosalind Meehan and Zoë Wedderburn-Day — March 04, 2022
  INTRODUCTION This note provides an overview of the financial sanctions introduced by the United States government, the UK government and the European Union in response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia as of 3 March 2022. Given that this is an evolving situation, the sanctions landscape remains fluid and will continue to change considerably ...

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